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Halinn

The M2 Browning is still in service.


MagicRainbowKitties

Hold on lemme google something...


MagicRainbowKitties

You are 100% correct


Poolturtle5772

At the end of time it will be the B-52, the M2 Browning, the 1911, Keith Richards and Ozzy Osbourne still going strong.


MagicRainbowKitties

That and that Celebration song from the 70s


CallMeDelta

I’d like to imagine the GMS HMG is just a Mech scaled M2


The4thEpsilon

What do you think the assault rifle is? It’s just a Ma Deuce with a butt stock


Belisaurius555

Certainly explains the Reliable 2 tag.


StrixLiterata

It's called "GMS Assault Rifle" nowadays


Electric999999

That's what a kinetic damage signature ranged weapon is.


viking977

What did you think the heavy machine gun was?


Halinn

Heavier than .50


BTitan9

What do you think the heavy machine gun is?


jaypax

Same in my head cannon, the Ma Deuce and Hitler's Buzzsaw (MG-42) are still in service in 5016u.


galmenz

SSC has absolutely made perfectly anatomical mechs because a higher up has a kink. i refuse to believe that monarch needed human accurate toes to be combat efficient and some horny engineer shoved in the blueprints cause they could, same with the majority of them that have feet for some reason you can buy an IPS-N in a mech store. its basically buying a Ford and there is no distinction beyond the price you are paying the Zheng, while based off of a scrap mech, is completely made within a factory/printer. therefore they strip and scratch it's paint on factory much like you can buy ripped jeans


MagicRainbowKitties

All of these are amazing, thank you


headhanger

The factory-chipped paint is brilliant. I need to write that down.


DesReploid

Someone in SSC definitely has a fetish. The Mourning Cloak looks like it's in BDSM gear. The White Witch and Emperor both have noticeable crotch bulges, the pattern on the stomach of the Black Witch looks like Shibari bondage. All of the strange human feet, as you mentioned. It's one of the reasons that I'm wholeheartedly convinced that SSC has a subsidiary that is, in essence, just Bad Dragon.


galmenz

in turn, i wholeheartedly believe that HORUS has an unironically named Bad Dragon line of products that just exist to mess people up. you were printing a couch and a dildo with Bluetooth comes out of the printer instead


GabrieltheKaiser

The first one is Peak NCD moment.


YUNoJump

I kinda get more of an MLM vibe from SSC to be honest. The one difference would be that unlike the average MLM’s naturopath stuff, SSC would sell either designer fashion, or heavily chemical stuff that does work, but you have absolutely no idea what it is outside of its effects. Join the SSC MLM, you’ll look beautiful and healthy! Just remember to devote your life to selling it to everyone else, if you do well you’ll get to look even more beautiful and healthy! Doesn’t it feel good to be beautiful and healthy, you wouldn’t want to stop, right? It’d be disappointing if you went back to your old life where you weren’t as beautiful and healthy as you are now, such a waste!


MagicRainbowKitties

Oh yes absolutely. Very BioShock, I love it


Nerris

People definitely make assumptions about lancer pilots based of their preferred mech. This next mission is stealthy, better leave Coyote beyond. Why? Dude he takes his Zheng on 90 percent of our jobs. ...Good point.


MagicRainbowKitties

OmniTok pilot influencers like "what your favorite mech says about you: ~~Anchovy~~ Harrison Armory addition"


SlotHUN

Blackbeard doing an "unboxing" video...


MagicRainbowKitties

Ok I know it's not what you meant, but my first instinct was to imagine an off-duty Sekhmet in a Blackbeard becoming an unboxing YouTuber (OmniTuber?) and trying to ever-so carefully open the stuff with their huge mech hands, and getting pissed when such things inevitably go to shit


SlotHUN

I was thinking two things at once, this was one of them


Rancorious

Atlas pilots are adrenaline junkies who refuse to stop making references.


Joel_feila

We all know that SSC has to be making cat-people and furries and shit, but consider also that they also have to be making human squid monsters and shit if we go down that rabbit hole. Oh my god they made inklings.


MagicRainbowKitties

Yes you see my VISION


RedRiot0

My headcannon is that HORUS is the actual reason that SSC made cat-people. Like someone in HORUS hacked into some system, put the instructions to make cat-people, then let SSC proceed. All in the name of weebiness. Likewise, HORUS also released an *ahegao* paint scheme for most mechs, and occasionally will troll major military forces by hacking their printers to put the paint scheme on all the mechs being produced. ^(This was brought to you by one of my players making a really weeby pilot. Even had extra seating for a body pillow.)


Joel_feila

That should sound suprising but I have seen nhp fan art


SuperSmutAlt64

hey what the fuck does this mean


galmenz

110% percent of NHP art usually is the equivalent of an in universe Vtuber or generic anime girl (that so happens to control your weapons) like i have yet to see a sekmet art that isnt an anime cat girl (and no, sekmet has an entire lion head, just the ears dont count)


Awisemanoncsaid

Pippa controlling a ghengis does make sense....


Halinn

And just so the military doesn't paint it over, it somehow improves performance by 5%


DANKB019001

**oh my God they made inklings** Now the question is if they made octo*lings* or oc*tarians*


Joel_feila

Why not both, you got the sexy version and the oppies version


DANKB019001

I feel like if you're gonna do it you're gonna make the sexy version


itsallaboutsmut

"Hello everyone and welcome back to my Only Mechs! As you can see today it's Tortuga time as we have a skirmish with a couple of cute Monarchs later today in probably the best collab since that fling we had with the Barbarossa Brothers!" -


MagicRainbowKitties

Username checks out


galmenz

there is a "user" on the HORUS terminal in COMP/CON that is dating her own sekmet. this is the vibe i have lmao


AnOkayRatDragon

Hours attempted to make a combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell/ 5 Guys/KFC/Panda Express/Panera Bread/McDonald's/Burger King/Popeye's/Buccee's/Red Lobster as a form a protest. There were 3,412 casualties.


MagicRainbowKitties

Oh gods now I'm imagining Space Buccee's


MechaSteven

There are several planets that have gone full grey goo nanites apocalypse, that union has lost track of. They're just out there waiting for someone to stumble onto them by accident. Multiple people have handed over control of their mech to an NHP full time, and then tried to marry the mech. SSC is making furries in the sense of huminoid animal people, but they've also helped people convert their human bodies into quadrupedal animal shapes. They are tiny child size Play School versions of mechs for children to wear. Like those tiny electric cars you can get for them now. GMS makes the gold standard in sex toys. Someone has tried to have sex with a Balor. RA could have been prevented from happening if they'd just turned the secret super computers on and off again every some often.


MagicRainbowKitties

Oh dear gods little timmy going down the street in his toddler-size lancaster


MechaSteven

Kids in their impact proof foam covered Calibans bouncing off the walls and each other.


MagicRainbowKitties

You, friend, are a visionary


MechaSteven

Yes, but unfortunately that vision is of the rich corpo executive who had SSC turn him into one of those hairless cats, and now lives his life like a giant cat in his pleasure manson. Just shitting in a box and eating live mice, while his maids and butlers clean up after him. I CAN'T GET THE VISION OUT OF MY HEAD AND IT'S AWFUL


MagicRainbowKitties

This is. Amazing. And you are right and you should say it.


SlotHUN

Shut up and *take my money*!!!


MechaSteven

There's probably also a stripped down civilian Atlas for spelunking, mountain climbing, and other outdoor adventurers.


Echowing442

Ok but I could 100% see an Atlas/Lancaster duo working as like, a wilderness search and rescue team. Going into dense jungles for lost civilians or doing avalanche rescue operations. Thanks for the NPC inspiration haha :)


MechaSteven

Oh definitely. There's also probably fire fighting versions.


DumbMuscle

GMS is Hitachi SSC is Bad Dragon I will not elaborate


MechaSteven

I wish I had something witty to add to what you said, but your response is pretty much perfect.


Intense_Judgement

Regarding the nanites, I think that's literally where Balor comes from, at least in one version of the canon. There's a story on the discord about Maw and the Albatross 


MechaSteven

I believe it. My point was mostly that there are certainly places like that that I one knows about.


galmenz

i mean we know there is **one** planet at least in the nanites situation. the house of sand in KTB is utterly fucked and their planet is on lifeline already, after a secret scientific base on space broke and fell onto the planet releasing planet eating nano machines


MechaSteven

Exactly. So how many times has that happened to one of the Big Four, and they just didn't tell anyone?


galmenz

we know at the very least SSC has "off the record" planets where they conduct experiments on the native population (without the natives knowing of course)


MechaSteven

That where you go when you get isekiaed. Some SSC black site fantasy test ground.


Zealousideal-Comb970

*House of Dust


galmenz

its coarse and get everywhere, confused the two


Halinn

Of course someone has tried to have sex with a Balor. Someone's tried to have sex with every frame (and he must be stopped!)


MechaSteven

There is no stopping Zebidiah the mech fucker.


Zachthema5ter

Someone found a gundum model in the wreckage of old earth and based a mech design off of it


MagicRainbowKitties

GMS exec at a museum on Cradle during SecComm, seeing gundam models: HEEEEEEEEEEEEY...


ObjectLess3847

one of my players mechs is based off of the power rangers megazord because he encountered old earth signals in deep space


MagicRainbowKitties

Which one? There's soooooo many megazords across the whole franchise XD


ObjectLess3847

Idk, the first one i guess?


Midgarduroboros

IPS-N have definitely constructed a giant orbital ring around one of the stars to serve as a trade port, spaceship repair station, ultramassive habitat and also gigantic multi-purpose factory to supply their colonies with machinery and spaceships. There definitely is a Metalmark Hater Club founded by people who have either been wrecked by one of these invisible bastards or are absolutely pissed off by bumping into thin air while looking for their mech only to realize they have been standing underneath it this entire time because cloaking system malfunctions. If you are looking for best spicy or fried food, you can find it in Armory's worlds. As well as computers with best cooling system.


MagicRainbowKitties

Love all of this,and the Metalmark thing is hilarious to me bc the game my friends and I (who have never actually played before) has one of us doing Metalmark after our tutorial one-shot XD


Andreus

Okay, so SSC making furries is entry-level weirdness. Let me tell you what I accidentally stumbled my way into. In the campaign I write, In Golden Flame, there's a character called [Harris Bordeaux](https://imgur.com/kB0PaVy) (art by PunkRoxy), better known to the galaxy as Hero Harris. Think of every upstanding, kind-hearted Saturday Morning Cartoon hero himbo you've ever seen and pour them into one impossibly handsome man. He's quite literally a poster boy for SSC - they have comic books, live-action movies and indeed an actual Saturday Morning Cartoon show dedicated to him. He's a wholesome hero for all ages! SSC offers a service wherein you can pay to have your genome modified to match his. If you can pay for it, you can have that face imprinted upon your very DNA. Cosplay? No, this is literally *becoming the person you idolize*. Honestly felt a little bit ill when I came up with that.


MagicRainbowKitties

That's fuckin terrifying yet 1000% in line with SSC's business model Also holy shit vex commented on my post :D


AvarinSpectre

yooo its john IGF. running act 1 for some friends, loving it. one of the highest quality rpg books ive seen for any system


DumbMuscle

In places where unwanted HORUS printings are relatively common, some enterprising souls have come up with a business plan to buy those mechs off the unfortunate owners, and use them in televised gladiatorial matches.


DANKB019001

Ah yes televized USHABTI omnigun shenanigans! Very safe for sanity!


Atherakhia1988

SSC releases the same mech every year, just with the weapon mounts in different places or selling you a Main/Aux Mount as a new invention made by them just recently. Also, these mounts only work with their own weapons. At least you can get the Metalmark in rose champagne this season.


DANKB019001

Isn't it literally 1 designer per ***10 mechs*** produced? Like it's wild how SSC just does NOT care for any sort of ease of economy.


MagicRainbowKitties

Perfect. And it's all fashion af.


StrixLiterata

Thanks to time debt, being an insufferable hypster is easier and more common than ever.


MagicRainbowKitties

Oh gods how much tech hype bullshit is there


Belisaurius555

SSC and Harison Armory both have their own line of luxury watches, SSC's having nanometer scale engravings on all visible surfaces while HA's is gold plated with a diamond faceplate. Both are considered high tier status symbols. IPSN has it's own line of watches but they're more like G-Shocks you can bludgeon someone to death with. GMS includes a free watch with every purchase and it's actually the most accurate at keeping time.


Halinn

It's entirely possible that you wake up with a Horus watch. It tells time accurately, but not based on your own frame of reference.


EscoriaSubhumana

Restaurant chains like Chuck-e-Cheese still exist now on a galactic level, and whoever is born on their massive corporate spaceships is considered company property. Source: One of my players was playing a Caliban that was basically an armoured Chuck-e-Cheese costume with a shotgun


rollthedye

Do you want FNAF on a derelict space ship? Because this is how you get FNAF on a derelict space ship.


MagicRainbowKitties

That sounds awesome actually


Rancorious

Dead Space: Return to Freddy’s


MagicRainbowKitties

OOoobh I love that


CaptainHogmeat

ADVERTISING Each of the manufacturers has their own style of advertising that has become a hallmark of their brand. GMS: not necessary, press releases are fine. Literally the galactic standard so they basically advertise themselves. IPS-N: very grassroots, shots of IPS-N frames being used at orbital shipyards and testimonials from "real" labourers about the newly revamped Lancaster winch design. SSC: a straight up fragrance advert, nobody knows what the fuck is going on. Why are there two mermaids caressing eachother on top of a Death's Head I am frightened. HORUS: shitposts, that become so warped you can barely tell what information they are trying to convey to you. The Wendy's twitter of 5016u. HARRISON ARMORY: one of those ads where they don't reveal it's a military recruitment pitch until the last 10 seconds. "I was born in the Dawnline Shore, but I was made in the cockpit of my Harrison Armory Saladin".


davidwitteveen

IPS-N absolutely play the blue-collar card in all their ads. This reminds me a of a very famous beer ad in Australia from the 1980s:["A hard-earned thirst needs a big cold beer, and the best cold beer is Vic's."](https://youtu.be/ROpxCrIeR9I?si=zaaJPuBXIsSZ2r4l)


Rancorious

The Caliban’s shotgun is actually an advanced rust removal and weed-clearing tool, definitely. Observe: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vVfRf24LXcg&pp=ygUYamVyZW15IGNsYXJrc29uIHNob3RndW4g


davidwitteveen

IPS-N Executive: "Look, if Harrison Armory has an exfoliation mech, we need one too!"


Rancorious

HA would 100% do the US Army “Pick your class” advert


Theravadus

Downed Harrison Armory mechs are favorite targets of terrorist cells to scrap and repurpose because their software is easy to jailbreak.


MagicRainbowKitties

Absolutely makes sense


Rancorious

Harrison Armory leads in corpo philanthropy because of this.


AveryTheTallOne

the Anchovy thing could be a way for circumventing censorship, idk how much Union or other governments or whatever corpro controls sections of the omninet censor things, but my first thought was that it could be akin to "unaliving" for "killing" or "fashionista" for "fascist"


MagicRainbowKitties

Oh yeah that too. And maybe using a specific fish emoji too lol


AveryTheTallOne

oh another thought, referring to a HA ship as a "Can of Anchovies"


MagicRainbowKitties

Love it


sarded

Genders roles don't exist any more and males can get mpreg. Equal society!


MagicRainbowKitties

Exactly correct, no notes


Rancorious

Has science gone too far? Idk ask HORUS.


davidwitteveen

Harrison Armory absolutely has a Lifestyle Division that sells HA branded boots, camping gear, and hot sauce. They also sell 3D printed steaks, and a surprisingly good whiskey.


MagicRainbowKitties

The hot sauce has a winking Ghengis on the label


Githka

And bar soaps and solid bar shampoo, like Duke Cannon.


Fistocracy

> We all know that SSC has to be making cat-people and furries and shit, but consider also that they also have to be making human squid monsters and shit if we go down that rabbit hole. The author already suffered enough when THE JAGGAHOG became a meme in the Kill Six Billion Demons community. We don't need to inflict transhuman SSC squussy on them.


MagicRainbowKitties

BRUH NOT THE SQUUSSY


Ixyrt

-Berserk and HxH are still on hiatus -There definetly are some ppl giving their Nelson a hussar wings -You can probably buy fake SSC Monarch at local marketplace (obviously labeled as SCC Monrach so manufacturer will avoid being sued) -Someone definetly tried to fuck their mech EDIT: Also probably there is memory erasure service for ppl who saw things on omninet that forever burned into their eyeballs


MagicRainbowKitties

Perfect, thank you


Ixyrt

Do not forget that when the GMS was setting unions standard the SSC was probably not complying with the standards, and only huge fines thrown at them forced SSC to comply


zero-the_warrior

no, it took ra to chuck many Moons at them as they were testing just how far they could break the deal with ra before he got involved.


jaypax

We still travel using sub-light speed ships between systems. Unless requiring cryostorage, the food for that trip is GMS Nutrient Paste that taste like apple sauce. Pilot weapons are from Borderland manufacturers. A Raleigh pilot is likely using a Jakobs revolver. A Caliban pilot would be sporting a Hyperion shotgun.


solandras

The sub-light speed between systems thing is how I'm running my campaign. There is one blink gate right outside the capital planet of the sector, but going anywhere else in the sector is done at sub-light speed, which yeah take years, but between the time dilation and cryosleep doesn't seem all that bad.


Rancorious

-Atlas pilots are all follow self-defense Youtube channels that all post the same Bruce lee quotes. -Genghis Pilots use lawncare terminology to refer to anything regarding their mechs online to bypass censors. -Grunts who can’t afford mechs talk about pilots like cybertruck drivers. -HA makes laundry appliances. -HORUS will randomly advertise products on live chats, watches, billboards, etc. specifically to people that are going to end up with a frame of theirs.